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We’ve reached the season where I have motivation to do things, and also can’t seem to get anything done with hobbies I’ve had for 20 years and the self doubt is REAL. I know it’s not true, but that inner bully feels very convincing.

Israelis protested the war in Gaza and effectively called a general strike on Sunday (the first day of the work week) so… if we’re keeping track, the king of Jordan is a mossad plant and Israeli citizens are doing more to end the war than *checks notes* the king of the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan

Opinion | How the Military Became Another Instrument of Trump’s Power

"The danger of escalation is real. Soldiers and Marines are trained for combat, not constabulary duty and riot control. Expecting military personnel to shift seamlessly from destroying an enemy on the battlefield to law enforcement is asking for trouble."(gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...

The Bay Area Reporter front page, 13 August 1998. The headline ‘No obits’ is written in red above the lead story.

27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline.
It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

Props to the guy in the men’s room of this yarn festival with a shirt that’s a flat line EKG and reads “just stay calm …okay not that calm”

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

I assure you, I’m not taking any of this seriously 😂 if anything I’m mostly just confused by all the kvetching people seem to be doing.

Nerds gonna nerds, I guess. No skin off my nose.

Okay but… it’s the fourth campaign from CritRoll - why does anything have to be the same? Idk I feel like people are getting tripped up unnecessarily

@morbidpodcast.bsky.social I went to college in Vallejo, and a lot of the locations of the murders are still popular places for picnics, hikes etc. (also, Benicia is pronounced Buh-nee-sha)

Whoever peed at the wild Eggs in Carmel before me… sir you should REALLY call your dr.

@morbidpodcast.bsky.social the David carpenter cases are CHILLING - I spent a lot of time on Mt Tam and at Point Reyes as a college student. Everything in the Bay Area is so much closer together than it feels, but when you’re on the mountain or in the woods it’s eerily desolate

Now this is a view

Freddie is always eager to get outside, even though he isn’t allowed. He very much regretted his decision and started hissing and grumbling immediately, because I ruined the outside.

“Bottoms Up”— Pete Hegseth Took Swigs from Champagne Bottle, Plunged Into the Alcoholic Beverage During Fox News Broadcast Hegseth’s kids were present and sampled the dunk tank champagne

After Fox co-workers told media he was often drinking or hungover while at work, Pete Hegseth challenged people to find a single clip showing him drinking on the job.

We accepted the challenge.

Of all the theoretically indefensible opinions I hold, social media never seems to come for me about fucked up things I ACTUALLY believe.

You can’t shame me, I enjoy lox on chocolate chip bagels and I was the president of my high school’s anime club. We will BOTH die on this hill if I have my way

Found myself explaining to a friend how the four academic professorship ranks are Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Full Professor, and the Mervin G. Capitalist Endowed Chair in Peculiarly-Specific Studies.

A heat index alert at 3am when I don’t live in Arizona anymore is fucking rude

There’s No Room for Police Unions in the Labor Movement No other union employees are allowed to kill other human beings.

A friendly May Day reminder that cops aren’t workers and never have been. Their continued inclusion in our unions (and of police “unions” within the @aflcio.bsky.social) remains a stain on the entire labor movement. They’re just bosses with a license to kill www.teenvogue.com/story/what-t...

1 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: 2 Section 1. Repeal 3 Section 13-3603, Arizona Revised Statutes, is repealed.

NEWS: The bill repealing Arizona's Civil War-era abortion ban has passed both chambers, and Gov. Hobbs will sign it.

Bill: apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/B...

Law Dork Background:
- ruling and history: www.lawdork.com/p/arizona-ci...
- effective date: www.lawdork.com/p/arizona-ab...

Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems and a whistleblower who alleged Spirit ignored manufacturing defects, has died after a sudden illness.

I strive not to be conspiratorial under any circumstances. But, uhhhh...

Sometimes I remember Paul Kern lived for decades without sleep, and then I hear Randy Gardner holds the world record for being awake which isn’t even true, bc his record was beaten in 1997 and both records disregard the medical anomaly of Kern entirely and I get mad on his behalf

pagliacci is probably depressed because his whole audience is full of depressed guys grudgingly sent there by their doctors and it feels like he's bombing night after night

When the cool butch at the coffee shop
Compliments your ootd 🥰🥰🥰🥰 #queerjoy

I’m so, so tired y’all. Physically, mentally, emotionally. Things just never end.

The response to the SOTU address tonight by the senator from Alabama is beyond unhinged. The Senator gave POTUS a southern fuck you and has spent the whole speech near tears spouting some serious WN rhetoric

I was thinking about this and trying to figure out why and then I realized maybe Lucy is Orpheus in this scenario? Or maybe I just love tragedies idk

Something about ballad of Songbirds and Snakes has big Orpheus and Eurydice energy.

Given that Brianna Ghey, Nex Benedict, and the unnamed London skating rink victim were all attacked by cis white women, I think we need to come to grips **pretty quickly** that young women are being just as radicalized toward reactionary violence and bigotry as young men.

Telling people in oppressive geographies to "just move" is not organizing and it is not activism, but it *is* the political philosophy of people who misunderstand the value of community, and who devalue the incredible, decades-long work of American resistance movements.